PlayStation 5 Home Screen Changes Game Profile Pages to Include Ads and Update Info

PlayStation 5 players scrolling through their game library may have already noticed a major change to the system’s interface: gone is the home screen art when you hover over a game title. Replacing it: patch information, news updates and, in some cases, advertisements for other games from the same publisher.

A September update to the PS5 operating system appears to have changed the way game title screens display information. As a number of gaming sites have pointed out, and CNET confirmed on several titles with a PS5, art from each game has been swapped out with information apparently pulled from each game’s news feed.

A representative for Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The main art on the title page for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, for instance, is now a video roundtable featuring some of the game’s developers. The art for Black Myth: Wukong, a recent big hit, now shows a background image behind information about the game’s latest patch notes. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 now includes ads and pricing for other Star Wars games.

While the new title screen art and information aren’t ads for, say, Tide detergent or Nike, they could still be considered promotional material and mark a major visual change from multiple generations of PlayStation consoles using the Cross Bar interface.

While the September update added new features such as 3D audio profiles and Party Share, it also appeared to have removed a Resume Activity function that, according to PlayStation Lifestyle, only worked intermittently before it was taken away.